Hello!
I'm a longtime reader of this forum, and have used many of the hacks here in my kindles for over a decade (I love the custom screensavers!), but this is my first post.
I come here kindly asking for help, as a newbie coding for the kindle. I work with programming and scripting, but mostly for the web (PHP, JS, etc) and PowerShell windows scripting. I have dabbled in Unix shell scripting, but I'm not confident enough to start meddling with the kindle right away.
Here is what I want to do. I recently found my old K4 lying around, after a move, in an old box. I jailbroke it and installed KUAL and linkss. I want to write a script to force the kindle to go to sleep for a set amount of time, and then wake up for a second and go back to sleep. In conjunction with the linkss tool, it will effectively become a dumb BW, veeery low power digital picture frame, with a few hundred pictures loaded directly via USB after formatting in Lightroom (I first thought of using the Online screensaver tool, but then it would use a lot more battery power).
I found many useful guides here, but no comprehensive detail of the kindle lab126 functions that deal with sleep and wake up, setting up timers, etc.
Can anyone experienced point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance :)
I'm a longtime reader of this forum, and have used many of the hacks here in my kindles for over a decade (I love the custom screensavers!), but this is my first post.
I come here kindly asking for help, as a newbie coding for the kindle. I work with programming and scripting, but mostly for the web (PHP, JS, etc) and PowerShell windows scripting. I have dabbled in Unix shell scripting, but I'm not confident enough to start meddling with the kindle right away.
Here is what I want to do. I recently found my old K4 lying around, after a move, in an old box. I jailbroke it and installed KUAL and linkss. I want to write a script to force the kindle to go to sleep for a set amount of time, and then wake up for a second and go back to sleep. In conjunction with the linkss tool, it will effectively become a dumb BW, veeery low power digital picture frame, with a few hundred pictures loaded directly via USB after formatting in Lightroom (I first thought of using the Online screensaver tool, but then it would use a lot more battery power).
I found many useful guides here, but no comprehensive detail of the kindle lab126 functions that deal with sleep and wake up, setting up timers, etc.
Can anyone experienced point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance :)